2016

International Training Course on Popular Education in Health

EPES FOUNDATION is pleased to announce its 7th International Training Course

on Popular Education in Health

Sharing 33 Years of Work for Dignity and Justice in Health

Course on Participatory and Community-based Strategies in Health

INTERNATIONAL GUEST LECTURER

When: January 11 to 22, 2016

(Arrive in Chile January 10)

Where: Santiago and Concepcin, Chile

Hands-On Learning to Promote and Expand the
Right to Health:
Learn and apply popular education methods for
health promotion.
Learn how to build community health teams.
Partner with local organizations.
Explore the role of faith-based communities in
health and healing.
Identify the social determinants of the obesity
epidemic: alternatives and challenges for
fighting it. Experiences from Latin America.

Special workshop:
The deterioration of
our nutritional status
and the collapse of
public health systems

Alejandro Calvillo Unn

Alejandro Calvillo Unn, a sociologist with a PhD in philosophy

from Barcelona University, is also a graduate of the Program for
Higher Study on the Environment and Sustainable Development
from El Colegio de Mexico. In 2006 he founded the organization
Consumer Power that has launched campaigns to address the
obesity and diabetes epidemics that are causing the collapse of
public health systems of Mexico and other nations.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) invited him
to participate in a group of experts on food and soft drink
advertising that targets children. The group developed a
guide distributed throughout Latin America. In Mexico he is
a well-known advocate of regulatory policy to fight obesity
that recently became law, including: taxes on sugar-based
beverages, regulating food and soft drink ads aimed at children
and in the schools, in addition to introducing labels on the front
of packaging to advise consumer of product ingredients.

EPES (Educacin Popular en Salud)

Inspired by a vision of quality and fairness in health for
the poor, EPES is an independent, community-based
non-profit foundation in Santiago, Chile. Founded in
1982 as a project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Chile (IELCH), EPES has grown from a small emergencyresponse team during the military dictatorship to a leader
of community mobilization for health services, awareness
and empowerment. Today, EPES annually reaches over
145,000 women and their families in poor communities
with innovative strategies and tools for collective action.

STUDY IN CHILE
The 12-day course takes place in Santiago, the Chilean capital
at the foot of the Andes, and in Concepcin, a major industrial
center in southern Chile. Here you will get to know Chile from
the vantage point of the urban poor and the fight for the right
to health in the context of political transitions, health sector
privatization, far-reaching socio-cultural change, and citizen
mobilization. In the first six courses 110 people from 15
countries participated.

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FACULTY
The multidisciplinary team of EPES health educators, led
by EPES founder Karen Anderson, M.Ed., MPH (USA/ELCA
Global Mission), will be joined by the following guest
instructors:

COURSE CONTENTS
Popular Education
- History, principles, methodologies
- Popular education techniques

Popular Education and social determinants of

health (SDH)
- Convergence between popular education and social
determinants of health
- Exercise to apply the social determinants of health
approach

Nutritional deterioration and the collapse of

public health systems
- Social conditions that cause overweight, obesity, and
malnutrition.
- Alternatives for changing the obesogenic
environment and recovering nutritional health.

Gender, health and public policy

- Concepts of gender and their impact on health
- Tools for gender-based planning from the context
of social determinants of health, human rights and
equity

EPES Health Team Training Model

- Stages in the process developed by EPES for training
health promoters
- Group reflection on the way the methodology
conveys the principles and values of popular
education.

Rev. Lisandro Orlov (Argentina), Theologian, Pastor of

the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina.
Former regional coordinator of the Lutheran World
Federation HIV/AIDS campaign.
Dr. Maria Isabel Matamala (Chile), Physician, Leader
of the feminist movement for womens health. A past
coordinator of the Pan American Health Organizations
Equity, Gender and Health Reform program.
The Masters Program in Public Health of Waterloo University
(Canada) will grant post-graduate academic credit for
participation in the EPES International Training Course.
The International Training Course in Popular Education
in Health is co-sponsored by the University of Chile Public
Health School.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Undergraduate and
graduate students in public health, social work, humanities
students, and gender studies, popular educators, teachers,
church workers and social justice activists. Course
conducted in Spanish.

COURSE FEE:

US$2,200 includes lodging, meals,

materials, and transportation within Chile (airfare to/from
Chile not included). Special rates for Chileans. Limited
number of participants. Application deadline October 15,
2015. Course includes on-site lodging.
On Saturday, January 23 the group will visit the coast and
have lunch at the beach (optional, additional cost of US$70).

Participatory Assessments: Exploring designs

- What is a Participatory Assessment?
- Techniques and tools for holding a participatory
community assessment in health.

Learn by Playing
- Experience and analyze EPES educational games

Faith communities and the struggle for health

- HIV-AIDS, diversity and identity

Health Campaigns and Actions

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please contact Angelina Jara:
epes2016@gmail.com
EPES International Training Course on
Popular Education in Health
Santiago, Chile

- Tools for carrying out health actions and campaigns

Phone: (56-22) 548-7617

Participatory evaluation

EPES Foundation / www.epes.cl

- Concept and techniques of participatory evaluations

EPES thanks the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) for its support for this training course.